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Centers for Natural Medicine
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Greater Tampa/St Petersburg area,  Florida
Plum Flower® Brand Unsulfured Herbs

Clean Inside and Out
You will find that our Plum Flower® Brand herbs are exceptionally clean.
 Herbs that
are first w
ashed in industrial stainless steel rotating drum cleaners equipped with
water jets. The water used is from our own underground well, which is naturally of
drinking water quality. This initial wash helps remove dirt and dust, thereby lowering
bacteria and heavy metal levels right from the beginning.

Our herbs are also subject to a very careful grading and sorting system. We
hand-sort most of our herbs to make sure there is no extraneous matter, soil,
powder, pebbles or dust in the herbs you buy. We ship most of our herbs in vacuum
packed double bags, further protecting them from damage, insects, dust, and dirt
during the shipping process.

We carefully monitor our Plum Flower® Brand herbs for impurities at our Mayway
Anguo in-house lab where we test for microbial levels and sulfur residues. Outside
labs test for DDT and Hexachlorabenzene, two non-permitted pesticides, as well as
lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium heavy metal levels.
Plum Flower® Brand Unsulfured Herbs

Why: Unsulfured Herbs
As seasoned distributors of Chinese
herbs we have seen the use of herbs
grow worldwide. As demand has
increased over time, the use of
preservatives has increased to meet the
storage and shipping needs of the
expanding commercial market. Sulfur
dioxide, and more recently chlorine and
aluminum phosphate, have been used to
inhibit the growth of microorganisms
during processing, to brighten the color
of herbs, to keep herbs from spoiling,
and to increase storage and shelf life.
Although these ends are good in
themselves, we became weary of herbs
tasting sour from the sulfur processing
and concerned over the growing use of
preservatives and their potentially
harmful side effects. In response to these
concerns and those of our health
conscious customers, we have
developed methods to provide herbs
that are more natural and with longer
storage and shelf life that are completely
free of these harmful preservatives.
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